JSP™ and XML Integrating XML and Web Services in Your JSP™ Application

Chapter 7. Successfully Using JSP and XML in an Application

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Using a Java Representation of an XML Document

• Why Not Just Use SAX or DOM?

• Installing JDOM and dom4j

• Why Both JDOM and dom4j?

• Common Ways to Use XML

• Using a Database with XML

• Pulling in XML Files

This chapter has two goals. The first is to help you begin walking through using XML in a natural way within your JSP application. The second is to show you how to create and use a Java representation of an XML document.

The chapter will start by introducing JDOM and dom4j. These two APIs enable a programmer to create and use a Java representation of an XML document. Once the XML data is conveniently stashed as a Java object, it then becomes simple to use standard Java techniques ...